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Fleetwood Sweater from Tanis Fibre Arts complete! Main cream yarn is Blue Sky Fiber’s Extra Aran bought at Fabrications Ottawa and the granny square panel is in Crazy About Yarn’s Amun-Ra. I am ready for another tumultuously climated Ottawa March. 🌦️🌬️☔️#knitting #buylocal #ottawabusiness #ottawa
I have decided to stay in my new Fran pj’s the whole long weekend. Prior to 2020, pj days were rare and cherished. The kids and I had no where we had to be - the whole day could be for leisure. I’m recapturing that ease this Labour Day weekend venturing out only onto my sunny balcony with a book.
![I sewed up these pj’s in a medium. No alterations. The delightful cotton check is from @_christinae and her destash. 🤍🖤🩶
#sewing #garmentsewing #longweekendstyle #closetcorepatterns
[Image: a red haired female presenting person is sitting cross-legged on a brown leather sofa. She is wearing black and white checked pyjamas that are long and oversized. Her comfort level has rarely been higher. End]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ckgtzlofwd54zrfnkb7n7jm/bafkreig324kgltesk5swc7h57hxwqhy5dnewdgnveyn6mwzpzyro7tl5te@jpeg)
August 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I have decided to stay in my new Fran pj’s the whole long weekend. Prior to 2020, pj days were rare and cherished. The kids and I had no where we had to be - the whole day could be for leisure. I’m recapturing that ease this Labour Day weekend venturing out only onto my sunny balcony with a book.
Next up in my summer sewing: my souvenir fabric from Toronto is now a t-shirt! I bought a metre of this cute striped rib knit from @kingtextiles when Dan & I were in Toronto last month. I had some scraps of black jersey on hand, so now this comfy @truebias #rioringertshirt is done!
#garmentsewing
#garmentsewing
![[Image: a female-presenting person with long hair and bangs is wearing a striped t-shirt with blue, orange, red, white, and black narrow stripes. She is very relaxed. End]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ckgtzlofwd54zrfnkb7n7jm/bafkreichvwze6xvdops6eeyrxktx7uqtrwrluujchlcyuloy26wht5xjv4@jpeg)
August 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Next up in my summer sewing: my souvenir fabric from Toronto is now a t-shirt! I bought a metre of this cute striped rib knit from @kingtextiles when Dan & I were in Toronto last month. I had some scraps of black jersey on hand, so now this comfy @truebias #rioringertshirt is done!
#garmentsewing
#garmentsewing
So…sweaty…out! I barely made it to the market in our heatwave, but at least I looked awesome. I overbought this linen for Dan’s birthday shirt on purpose, thinking to make him matching shorts. He politely declined, so I sewed this set for myself. Details in alt text. #garmentsewing
#sewing
#sewing
![This #rosieshirt from @bellalovespatterns uses very little fabric for the result, and I had exactly 4 paper buttons from @corefabrics left to polish it with. The shorts are another pair of #saguarosetpants from @fridaypatterncompany which is another fabric-efficient pattern.
Now, to get an ice pack…
@darrellthomas_textiles #sewing #scrapbuster
[Image: a very sweaty red haired person is standing in front of a cluttered storage unit wearing a blue-hued palm tree printed button up short sleeve shirt and elastic waist shorts. End]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ckgtzlofwd54zrfnkb7n7jm/bafkreiblpzwnyryiwtkigxzfqyfyu74blqyqntbkmw4bi2dh7q5c75kb3y@jpeg)
July 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
So…sweaty…out! I barely made it to the market in our heatwave, but at least I looked awesome. I overbought this linen for Dan’s birthday shirt on purpose, thinking to make him matching shorts. He politely declined, so I sewed this set for myself. Details in alt text. #garmentsewing
#sewing
#sewing
OF COURSE, I finish a fabulous cabana shirt in time for the heat wave to end and rain and flood warnings to enter my phone notifications. Le sigh. Sewing info in the alt text. 🏝️🏖️🌊 🌺 #garmentsewing #sewing
![This shirt was started at the @ottawagarmentguild Sew-In last weekend, and only required buttonholes and buttons (and a wonky pocket placement correction) when I left at 4:30. This gorgeous viscose deadstock from @blackbirdfabrics really fought me, I gotta say. (Re: previously mentioned wonky pocket.) This float, slippery, soft beauty wanted to be an unstructured, blousy piece. I forced it into a 1950’s vintage pattern camp shirt. I’m not sorry. This pattern is from @sewfab.sewretro and this is the size small. I have dubbed her: “Rick’s Barfly”. 🌺🏝️
#sewing #sewingmyclothes #vintagestylenotvintagevalues
[Image: a red haired woman is standing in from of a cluttered bookcase with her arms akimbo and a wry expression. She is wearing an orange tropical floral print shirt that is very much at home on a TV show opening scene in a beachfront Maui bar owned by a guy whose friend has a very weird life. End]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ckgtzlofwd54zrfnkb7n7jm/bafkreicnfdaat5cngjvl3td32urk6i3xnhy47duqzurzj3w7pqlvtligf4@jpeg)
June 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
OF COURSE, I finish a fabulous cabana shirt in time for the heat wave to end and rain and flood warnings to enter my phone notifications. Le sigh. Sewing info in the alt text. 🏝️🏖️🌊 🌺 #garmentsewing #sewing
I finished my latest two-at-a-time toe-up socks in a gorgeous colourway of deep-stash mystery sock yarn. Too hot to wear socks today, but they look like glowing embers in a campfire, so I will bring them to the woods!🏕️
#justknitting
#justknitting
June 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I finished my latest two-at-a-time toe-up socks in a gorgeous colourway of deep-stash mystery sock yarn. Too hot to wear socks today, but they look like glowing embers in a campfire, so I will bring them to the woods!🏕️
#justknitting
#justknitting
This drives me nuts!! I can’t share this @jollygoodginger.bsky.social reel or comment on it or even ‘like’ it on IG. Is this shadow-banning??! Arghhhh!!!!!!! #fightfascism #nokings
June 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This drives me nuts!! I can’t share this @jollygoodginger.bsky.social reel or comment on it or even ‘like’ it on IG. Is this shadow-banning??! Arghhhh!!!!!!! #fightfascism #nokings
This handsome guy!!!! Dan just had his birthday and we celebrated with friends and family back in Ottawa, and now in BC. I love him so much. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
His birthday shirt sewing info is in the alt text. 😃👍🏻 #sewing #garmentsewing
His birthday shirt sewing info is in the alt text. 😃👍🏻 #sewing #garmentsewing
![Dan’s birthday shirt this year is made from a stunning linen we got at @darrellthomas_textiles 💙 It is Dan’s favourite shirt pattern: the @threadtheorydesigns Fairfield Shirt in XL with belly adjustment. The buttons are from @ecoequitable 🩶
[Image: a dashingly handsome silver fox of a man is seated and leaning forward in a rather boring Best Western Hotel lobby. The uninspired decor only serves to highlight the man’s gorgeous face and tousled hair. This lovely man is wearing a long sleeved shirt printed with navy blue palm trees. His sleeves are rolled up in a jaunty manner. His comfortable brown pants and grey slip on shoes add to his relaxed demeanour. He’s not smiling much, but only because if he did, it would dazzle all around him so thoroughly, an accident may occur. He cares too much for others safety to risk this. He’s a hero. End]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ckgtzlofwd54zrfnkb7n7jm/bafkreicbw3ko7uieqnwd5wjmmmt5hsajc3zfzraegi56ffrly3lwpig4km@jpeg)
June 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This handsome guy!!!! Dan just had his birthday and we celebrated with friends and family back in Ottawa, and now in BC. I love him so much. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
His birthday shirt sewing info is in the alt text. 😃👍🏻 #sewing #garmentsewing
His birthday shirt sewing info is in the alt text. 😃👍🏻 #sewing #garmentsewing
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My first Canadian history podcast is out! I had to start this series with Viola Desmond, because her story needs to be known, and because unlike some other countries we actually put a Black woman important to history on our currency and continue to honour her. #Canada
March 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My first Canadian history podcast is out! I had to start this series with Viola Desmond, because her story needs to be known, and because unlike some other countries we actually put a Black woman important to history on our currency and continue to honour her. #Canada
Fleetwood Sweater from Tanis Fibre Arts complete! Main cream yarn is Blue Sky Fiber’s Extra Aran bought at Fabrications Ottawa and the granny square panel is in Crazy About Yarn’s Amun-Ra. I am ready for another tumultuously climated Ottawa March. 🌦️🌬️☔️#knitting #buylocal #ottawabusiness #ottawa
March 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Fleetwood Sweater from Tanis Fibre Arts complete! Main cream yarn is Blue Sky Fiber’s Extra Aran bought at Fabrications Ottawa and the granny square panel is in Crazy About Yarn’s Amun-Ra. I am ready for another tumultuously climated Ottawa March. 🌦️🌬️☔️#knitting #buylocal #ottawabusiness #ottawa
Spring! Not quite, of course, due to geography, but the hope is there! Daylight Savings Time, my original and forever nemesis, starts today. Ottawa’s Fake Spring is likely this week, and next week is the Vernal Equinox. So Spring Sewing is ON!!! 🍃🌷 Pattern info in alt text. #garmentsewing #ottawa
March 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Spring! Not quite, of course, due to geography, but the hope is there! Daylight Savings Time, my original and forever nemesis, starts today. Ottawa’s Fake Spring is likely this week, and next week is the Vernal Equinox. So Spring Sewing is ON!!! 🍃🌷 Pattern info in alt text. #garmentsewing #ottawa
One of the yarn chicken danger zones I fear the most are sleeves. They ALWAYS take more yarn than I think. Due to a size-up, I have resorted to dividing my remaining yarn into two balls of approx 137m each. This is a magical number in Sweet Valley High so I am sure to be blessed. #TFAFleetwood
March 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
One of the yarn chicken danger zones I fear the most are sleeves. They ALWAYS take more yarn than I think. Due to a size-up, I have resorted to dividing my remaining yarn into two balls of approx 137m each. This is a magical number in Sweet Valley High so I am sure to be blessed. #TFAFleetwood
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally every time I talk to friends
Another blouse for my work wardrobe! Fabric is deadstock from Blackbird Fabrics. It’s a soft and drapey viscose blend. The pattern is called the Naomi Blouse, but its designer is out of business now. 😢 #sewing #handsewnwardrobe #sewingastherapy
February 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Another blouse for my work wardrobe! Fabric is deadstock from Blackbird Fabrics. It’s a soft and drapey viscose blend. The pattern is called the Naomi Blouse, but its designer is out of business now. 😢 #sewing #handsewnwardrobe #sewingastherapy
Hair is clearly all about Jocelyn Schitt, shirt is absolutely all Helen Roper, and makeup is all Cheekbone Beauty with earrings by Warren Steven Scott. ❤️🧡🩷💚 Sewing Project info in Alt Text. #sewing #handmadewardrobe #buysecondhand #vintagestylenotvintagevalues
February 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hair is clearly all about Jocelyn Schitt, shirt is absolutely all Helen Roper, and makeup is all Cheekbone Beauty with earrings by Warren Steven Scott. ❤️🧡🩷💚 Sewing Project info in Alt Text. #sewing #handmadewardrobe #buysecondhand #vintagestylenotvintagevalues
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Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was an opera singer who toured around America before the Civil War.
Author @tiffanylwarren.bsky.social explores Elizabeth’s story in the novel THE UNEXPECTED DIVA, and joins us this week on Vulgar History to share the tale of the “Beyoncé of the antebellum”.
Author @tiffanylwarren.bsky.social explores Elizabeth’s story in the novel THE UNEXPECTED DIVA, and joins us this week on Vulgar History to share the tale of the “Beyoncé of the antebellum”.
February 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was an opera singer who toured around America before the Civil War.
Author @tiffanylwarren.bsky.social explores Elizabeth’s story in the novel THE UNEXPECTED DIVA, and joins us this week on Vulgar History to share the tale of the “Beyoncé of the antebellum”.
Author @tiffanylwarren.bsky.social explores Elizabeth’s story in the novel THE UNEXPECTED DIVA, and joins us this week on Vulgar History to share the tale of the “Beyoncé of the antebellum”.
1 of my fave writers @suyidavies.com is part of a kickstarter I’ve supported. I do not play card games, but I love many folks who do. Let’s see this amazing project succeed! 🐉❤️ kck.st/3WJzDSe
Prosper with Dragons
A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game (with dragons!)
kck.st
February 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
1 of my fave writers @suyidavies.com is part of a kickstarter I’ve supported. I do not play card games, but I love many folks who do. Let’s see this amazing project succeed! 🐉❤️ kck.st/3WJzDSe
Dreaming of being on a beach. Handmades from patterns by Wardrobe By Me, True Bias, and Friday Pattern Company.
February 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Dreaming of being on a beach. Handmades from patterns by Wardrobe By Me, True Bias, and Friday Pattern Company.
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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January 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Hey while megaretailers profiting one of the richest men in world are out here doing this shit www.advocate.com/news/amazon-...
maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks
maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks
Amazon removes 'equity for Black people' and 'LGBTQ+ rights' from company policies
Amazon has quietly removed protections for Black and LGBTQ+ workers from its company policies.
www.advocate.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Hey while megaretailers profiting one of the richest men in world are out here doing this shit www.advocate.com/news/amazon-...
maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks
maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks
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As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
People Have Had Non-Binary Genders for Thousands of Years
It's nothing new.
www.teenvogue.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon.
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️
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techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b... Sweet!!!
Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a
techcrunch.com
January 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b... Sweet!!!